 From flickr.com/photos/24662369@N07/5051830689/: Europa's Hidden Ice Chemistry - an example of planetary activity: Europ (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | The segment on the QVC shopping network where host Shawn Killinger and designer Isaac Mizrahi argued over whether or not our Moon was a planet or a star was hilarious. But it was actually comforting that an honest scientific discussion arose spontaneously just from the curiosity of two people. In fact, our Moon is a planet, albeit a minor one. There are 28 planets of all sizes within the orbit of Pluto. The public can be forgiven for not knowing an inside debate within the scientific community of the kind that doesn't get aired very often. The public got a taste of this debate in 2006. In a bureaucratic move that ignored the formal protests of the planetary science community, astronomers demoted Pluto from a "Major" Planet to a "Minor" Planet or a "Dwarf" Planet. But it's still a planet. Just like our Moon. Something Neil deGrasse Tyson knows very well. |
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